Private Maps
(working title)
A collection of short historical fiction charting the lives of unconventional women travelers and gender renegades. Inspired by both historical figures and pivotal moments in history, these stories celebrate and reclaim lost adventures, providing a compass for future exploration.
Warp and Weft
"It is said that the first European born in America was my son. As for me, I was only fulfilling my destiny."
Lady Hester Survives a Shipwreck
"It wasn’t for them to save her. She had to be willing to save herself."
The Route of Lise
"Many of the old stories end happily at a castle, but this story begins there, at a castle where no one wanted to stay for very long."
Through the Tintype
"It was imperative to save as many women as we could, and I would. For this work, I was to be paid a monthly salary of sixty-five dollars, the most I’d ever earned."
Musafir
"In the middle of one night in 1897, Isabelle Eberhardt first enters Algiers... She wants what all holy, devout, religious people yearn for: absolution."
The Price of Standing Still
"Marianne went out for a walk in a smart men’s suit of houndstooth print, so they arrested her. A woman must not look too masculine, too modern, too severe. The arrest was meant to deter us, but it only tantalized. "
